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PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 715
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 10th, 1914.
CHAPTER 442.
AN ACT to repeal Section 366 of Article 27 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland of 1904, entitled "Crimes and
Punishments," sub-title "Railroads—Obstructing," and to
re-enact said Section 366 with amendments, and to add to
said Article under said title and sub-title, an additional Sec-
tion to be known as Section 366-A, and to follow directly after
Section 366, and clothing the several Justices of the Peace of
the State of Maryland (except those Justices of the Peace in
and for the City of Baltimore who have not been selected by
proper legal authority to sit at each station house of said
Baltimore City) with jurisdiction to hear and determine all
prosecutions or proceedings arising under the provisions of
this Act and pronounce judgment and sentence thereunder.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 366 of Article 27 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of Maryland of 1904, entitled "Crimes and Punish-
ments," sub-title "Railroads—Obstructing," be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, and an
additional Section to be known as Section 366-A is hereby added
to same to follow directly after Section 366, and to read as
follows:
366. Any person who shall cling, climb, jump, step or in any
other way get upon any part of any locomotive, engine or car,
or who shall be on any part of any locomotive, engine or car,
whether the same be freight, passenger, coal or otherwise upon
any part of the track of any railroad within this State unless
in so doing he acts in compliance with the law or by permission
under the rules and regulations of the railroad, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before any of the
several justices of the peace of the State of Maryland, (except
those justices of the peace in and for the City of Baltimore who
have not been selected by the proper legal authority to sit at
each station house of said City of Baltimore) or upon conviction
thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined
not more than twenty-five dollars, or be subject to imprisonment
in jail or in the House of Correction for one month, or to both
fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the justice of the
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